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It totally would, and it would also require an insight into how (in this case) Beethoven found new ways of expression, even though he already could draw on so m

• mdp2021 5y ago
  Yes, but even sticking with a selected amount of material - not in the direction of "simulating the full Beethoven person", but in that of "obtaining knowledge [as if tentative scientific laws - informational compression from observation to underlying structures which can be exported and productively reapplied] to be squeezed out of some material", there is a dramatic difference between identifying "apparent superficial patterns" and identifying "the foundations of such patterns". Those "laws" are meant to be "the structures of reality", not the "structures of phenomena": similarly for understanding, which is not "how this behaves" but (like in science) "why this behaves", using "how" (the observation) to deduce "why". Any rambling may superficially make sense - and to get that superficial patterns are enough -, while underlying understanding (as a broad and powerful category) is required to actually build sense. To continue the example, one could impersonate Churchill by appropriating the terms and mannerism, or by deducing his ideas - "think like Churchill" is not "sound like Churchill". The idea of "intelligence" is that "intus legere", which explicitly excludes reading the surface where there is no "into". Otherwise, identifying superficial patterns is "Artificial Skimming", AS. It is far from impossible to deduce deep thought structures from limited material, but it must be the explicit goal.